reusing playbooks

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Hi,
I have been checking the documentation and some of the list, for this answer.

My current layout if like this

svn/
CitrusLeaf/
CL200/

files/

tasks/

templates/

vars/

CL400/

files/

tasks/

templates/

vars/

StreamingCluster/

SC200/

files/

tasks/

templates/

vars/

SC400/

files/

tasks/

templates/

vars/

WebServers/

WS200/

files/

tasks/

templates/

vars/

WS400/

files/

tasks/

templates/

vars/

global/

files/

tasks/

templates/

vars/

global_vars.yml
hosts

Is my understanding correct?, that if I’m running a play from CitrusLeaf/CL200/tasks that I cannot call a playbook in global/tasks?

I want to keep all my user, and standard config tasks like SSH banners in the global tasks directory because those things should be consistent on all machines.

Thanks,
James

2

Is my understanding correct?, that if I'm running a play from
CitrusLeaf/CL200/tasks that I cannot call a playbook in global/tasks?

It all assumes paths are relative to the first playbook you execute,
so "../" and such works fine.

I generally expected to see things tagged versus executing specific
sub playbook files by name, so you'd seldom be launching a sub
playbook.

(Other people do though)

--Michael

3

All works as long as you keep paths relative

4

I’m not clear what is required to make this work, or if I need to use variables to deal with this issue? Do I have to use “hosts:, user:,” etc to get the NTP.yml to work?

Thanks,
James

sheepchase:tasks jmarcus$ ansible-playbook Testing.yml -k
SSH password:
ERROR: parse error: playbooks must be formatted as a YAML list
sheepchase:tasks jmarcus$ head Testing.yml

  • hosts: 172.16.145.134
    user: root
    sudo: False
    gather_facts: True
  • include: NTP.yml

tasks:

Install other preqs

sheepchase:tasks jmarcus$ head -20 Testing.yml

  • hosts: 172.16.145.134
    user: root
    sudo: False
    gather_facts: True
  • include: NTP.yml

tasks:

Install other preqs

  • name: Make sure make has the lastest version installed
    action: yum name=make state=latest
    tags:

  • InstallPrereqs

  • name: Make sure openssl-devel the lastest version installed
    action: yum name=openssl-devel state=latest
    tags:

  • InstallPrereqs

sheepchase:tasks jmarcus$ cat NTP.yml
#- hosts: 172.16.145.134

user: root

sudo: False

gather_facts: True

tasks:

  • name: Make sure NTP has the lastest version installed
    action: yum name=ntp state=latest
    tags:

  • NTP

  • name: Run a manual NTP udpate
    action: command /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s -b -p 8 -u 0.centos.pool.ntp.org
    tags:

  • NTP

  • name: Make sure NTP is started
    action: service name=ntpd state=started
    tags:

  • NTP

  • name: Make sure NTP is enabled on boot
    action: service name=ntpd enabled=yes
    tags:

  • NTP

  • name: Make sure TIMEZONE is set
    action: command cp -f /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime
    tags:

  • NTP

5

can't really tell from email, pastebin better, but I think your yaml
file tabbing is incorrect.

6

I guess my question is when calling a playbook do, in this case NTP.yml do I need any of these?

  • hosts:
    user:
    sudo:
    gather_facts:
    tasks: